Background*

Mr. Paolo Pietrogrande serves as the President of Netplan Management Consulting. Mr. Pietrogrande served as the Chief Executive Officer of Enel Green Power S.p.A from 1993 to 2003. He served as the Chief Executive Officer and Executive Chairman at 9REN España S.L. He served as the Chief Executive Officer and Managing Director at Nuovi Cantieri Apuania SpA. He served as Business Development Director for Europe and Middle East at General Electric Power Systems. He served ... as Senior Manager at Bain and Company. He served as Vice President of Marketing Eastern Division at Kinetics Technology International B.V., where he spent first nine years of his career as a Chemical Engineer. He was a Senior Executive of the Enel Group. He has been involved in energy: from engineering and design of alternative energy solutions, to restructuring African oil industry, to managing major international renewable energy producers, to leading clean tech venture capital for 30 years. He serves as the Chairman of Netplan Management Consulting in New Jersey, and Member of Advisory Committee of Wheb Capital Advisors and of AMKA Onlus. He served as the Chairman of Solar Energy Italia. At Solar Energy Italia, he participated in the IPO and led an internally run turnaround in 2003. He served as the Chairman of Atmos Holding SpA. He serves as a Director of WHEB Biofuels Limited, Trinergy Ltd and several companies of Enel and Eni. He serves as a Member of Advisory Board at WHEB Partners. He has been a Director of SoloPower Systems, Inc., since June 13, 2012. He serves as a Director of Ryanair Limited. He has been an Independent Non-Executive Director at Pirelli & C. SpA since June 12, 2014. He served as a Non-Executive Director of Camco Clean Energy plc from November 2009 to November 29, 2012. He served as a Director of Ryanair Holdings plc from January 12, 2001 to September 21, 2012. He served as a Director of Atmos Holdings. He served as a Director of Ducati Motor Holding S.p.A since January 1999. His previous board appointments include Trinergy Plc, ENI Acqua, Ducati Motor, several companies of Enel and Atmos. He is a Member of Investment Committee at Ariya Capital and SoloPower, Inc. He teaches leadership at Executive M.B.A. at Alma Graduate School of Universita’ di Bologna, a program he has led for four years as Scientific Director.

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